i'm doing things so yeah...

[genoded]

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i will use this to find my shit....

u can use it tho ^^

[satorugorjus]

Dionysus sketch page is finally done!

[lillie-garden]

kissing you on the forehead

[increasingpanic-deactivated2024]

with tongue?

[lillie-garden]

with tongue. 🥰

[just-taking-adam-break]

[justvea18]

Ariadne, I think we're a little lost

[starweaverblog]

That's the spirit ✨😁

[pmamtraveller]

The Mermaid Fountain in Urayasu, Japan

[popculturealtar]

Creating a Virtual Pet Servitor

Disclaimer: In this example, I have decided to use a v4 Tamagotchi and its features, as it allows me to give it a name. However, I will do my best to make the instructions flexible so it can be used for other (physical) virtual pets. Non-physical virtual pets (such as neopets, mobile phone games, etc) will be covered at a later date. I do not claim for this to be the only method to creating a virtual pet servitor, or just a servitor in general - If you feel that another method would suit you, I encourage you to explore that. For this to be most effective, you will need to know what a servitor is, as I will not be going to lengths to explain the ins-and-outs of what a servitor is, and what it can do.

What You Will Need:

A physical virtual pet device.

A suitable battery or batteries.

A pen and a small piece of paper.

An idea for what you want your servitor to accomplish, as well as an idea for a name.

Time and energy.

What You Need to Do:

Write your task as a sigil on a small piece of paper and charge it in a way that suits you (if you are burning it, collect the ashes).

Place your sigil down, and get the battery for your virtual pet. Place the battery over the sigil, and charge the battery with its energy. If you have any stones, herbs, prayers or chants, now is the time to infuse its energy with the battery (if you are using ashes, circle the ashes around the battery and charge it).

Once you're happy with the battery, make sure it is clean and place it in the virtual pet.

Set the date/time (if this servitor is going to be doing a task for the future, set its date/time for the day you want it to begin working).

Tell it your name (some virtual pets allow you to write a name in the game, this works too).

Give your virtual pet a name, which will work for when you need to call upon the servitor (some virtual pets allow you to write a name in the game, this is preferable, but is not required), and usher to it what you need it to help you with.

Tah-dah! All done! Now the hard part is keeping it alive or from running away. Take care of it as you would any other virtual pet; this will keep your servitor strong and healthy. Meals, snacks, games, toys, outfits, medicine and cleaning - they're all offerings that help feed the servitor. Try to keep it somewhere where you'll remember to give it attention.

However, remember that all virtual pets eventually disappear. Once your virtual pet dies or runs away (or the battery runs out), it is up to you to decide what to do next. If you would like to create another servitor, repeat the above. If you feel satisfied with the servitor's work, you may put it to rest until you need another.

dividers by @/saradika.

[rosary-enthusiast]

Happy pride month to the heathens, the maenads, the men with fingers suited to a lyre, the women who find themselves carrying Sappho’s legacy, the children of Bacchus who need no definition, the androgynous & the Achillian, the followers of Hermaphroditus. May you breathe easily.

[plushefemme]

not to be a hedonist but. pleasure IS the whole point, my loves. we are made for pleasure. humans have not survived out of spite or sheer grit or simply to make more humans. we live for pleasure. the pleasure of licking the last delicious crumbs off your fingers and feeling sunlight on your skin and massaging a loved one's shoulders. we're made to fill our bellies with delicious food, to nap in soft grass, to touch each other in joy and comfort.

there is no shame or guilt in our bodies doing what they were made to do. and we are made for pleasure.

[udad-the-olympians]

-🍷

[cursecuelebre]

Painting of Aphrodite by painter Briton Rivière in 1902 depicting Aphrodite and her taming the natural world and beast with love based upon the Homeric hymn.

[granellodisole]

Anger is a gift

O' determined Aphrodite.

O' mighty Ares.

I pray to you, consorts in burning passion.

With gratitude I preach your reminder of

How much dormant self-worth and hurt pride

Reside in vitriolic anger.

May your presence teach me how to harness it,

How not to spiral in its thorny whirlwind

And choose when to release its poison.

This I pray, as your humble worshipper.

Blessed are your names,

Aphrodite Areia and Lord Ares,

Olympian bringers of retribution!

[cultkinkcoven]

Happy Pride Month !!! Happy Venus Day!!! Happy Friday the 13th!!!! 💕🖤✴️

The patron and protector of the dolls herself: Lady Aphrodite!

This was so so much fun to paint! I’m so glad I finished it today! I hope I did her justice!

Details!

Big fan of that tummy

I love her sm omgs

[the-gangaridaean]

Absolutely be political in your worship.

Aphrodite isn't called Pandemos (of All People) so you can sit around and let the big names capitalise love and serve it only to those who can afford to pay past the persecution. Hermes isn't called Oeopolus (Shepherd) so you can sit around and let a bunch of power-hungry wolves lead a flock of influencable sheep. Apollo isn't called Paean (Healer) so you can sit around while wealthy corporations serve healthcare only to those who can afford not to die. Athena isn't called Ambulia (Counsellor) so you can sit around while the people are being fed propaganda against each other to divert them from the real enemy at the top. Dionysus isn't called Eleuthereus (the Liberator) so you can sit around while freedom is only granted to those whose skins have the acceptable colour while the others die in chains. Zeus isn't called Xenios (of the Foreigners) so you can sit around while the borders are closed to those who need it and only open to those who can give back the money.

The Gods stand with the oppressed, and so should you.

[lhyrr]

— Aphrodite is iridescence, like the shimmer of pearls and seashells, like glittering jewels in the sea

[aether-nereide]

Greco-Kemetic Resources:

⚪ Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson

⚪ Ancient Greek Religion by Jon D. Mikalson

⚪ Greek Religion by Walter Burkert

⚪ Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by Christos Pandion Panopoulos and Vasilios Cheiron Tsantilas:

⚪ Kharis: Hellenic Polytheism Explored by Sarah Kate Istra Winter

⚪ The Orphic & Homeric Hymns

⚪ Greek Magical Papyri (AKA PGM: A Greco-Egyptian spell book)

⚪ Iliad / Odyssey by Homer

⚪ The Works and Days / Theogony by Hesiod

Dionysian Books:

⚪ Eleuthereus: Towards a Theology of Dionysian Liberation by Fabian MacKenzie

⚪ Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy by Vikki Bramshaw

⚪ Liber Dionysi by Fabian MacKenzie

⚪ The God of ecstasy: Sex-roles and the madness of Dionysos by Arthur Evans

⚪ God Who Comes, Dionysian Mysteries Reclaimed: Ancient Rituals, Cultural Conflicts, and Their Impact on Modern Religious Practices by Rosemarie Taylor-Perry

⚪ Written In Wine: A Devotional Anthology For Dionysos by Bibliotheca Alexandrina

⚪ Dionysos by Richard Seaford

⚪ Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life by Carl Kerényi

⚪ Dionysus: Myth and cult by Walter Otto

⚪ Dionysiaca by Nonnus

⚪ The Bacchae by Euripides

⚪ Theoi .com

Isiac Books:

⚪ Isis Magic: Cultivating a Relationship with the Goddess of 10,000 Names by M. Isidora Forrest

⚪ Isis: The Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome by Lesley Jackson

⚪ The Mysteries of Isis: Her Worship and Magick by de Traci Regula

⚪ Isis in the Ancient World by R.E. Witt

⚪ The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) by Apuleius

⚪ The Burden of Isis (James Teackle Dennis translation, 1910)

⚪ Praising the Goddess by Holger Kokkelmann (2008)

⚪ Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas by Laurent Bricault

⚪ Connecting the Isiac Cults: Forming Social Bonds in a Multicultural Empire by Lindsey A. Mazurek

⚪ Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Presence of Nubian Worshippers at Philae by Solange Ashby

⚪ Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones by a female author. A contemporary feminist retelling exploring Isis's legacy as a symbol of resilience and power.

⚪ Invoke the Goddess: Connecting to the Hindu, Greek & Egyptian Deities by Kala Trobe (2022).

⚪ Offering to Isis: Knowing the Goddess Through Her Sacred Symbols by M. Isidora Forrest.

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[theogonyofbeauty]

Dionysos.

Those who partook of his mysteries were believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.

[tractim]

unfinished dionysus

[rosary-enthusiast]

Thinking about the parallels between Christ & Dionysus.

To think of the son of god being one with the lowest of poverty, the suffering of men, a carpenter, a grieving mother, women in a society that rejects them…to indulge suffering with fine wine, to be reborn & be freed from mortal shackles. How beautiful is that?

Like Christ, Bacchus is a friend to nobodies, to the downtrodden, to the oppressed. Not just this, but he is the face of luxury- of gold, pelts, & ecstasy, while freely giving these gifts to those who do not have such means.

What madness that must take. Mad compassion, love for those who are flawed & dirty with mortal life. Dionysus understands us as we are, both as rugged nature, & as beautiful palaces. & he accepts us willingly.